Job Description

Overview

This is a Traveling Welder position for a 3-week project in Baltimore, MD, offering weekly pay and requiring maintenance and repair activities at a coal-fired utility plant. The role involves working with production and facility equipment, often in challenging environments.

Responsibilities

  • Install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain production and facility equipment using maintenance practices.
  • Perform cutting of steel parts using an oxy-acetylene torch in accordance with safety procedures.
  • Operate air chisels and related mechanical tools for removal and repair of metal components.
  • Carry and lift tools, equipment, and parts as needed to support maintenance and repair tasks.
  • Operate forklifts, aerial lifts, and cranes to move materials and access work areas safely.
  • Perform internal cleaning of precipitators, including removal of dust and debris, and carry out related mechanical and minor weld repairs.
  • Work inside electrostatic precipitators to clean out dirt and dust from the air-handling components.

Requirements

  • Ability to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain production and facility equipment in an industrial environment.
  • Proficiency using an oxy-acetylene torch to cut steel parts safely and accurately.
  • Experience operating air chisels and similar mechanical tools for metal removal and preparation.
  • Capability to carry and lift tools, equipment, and parts required for maintenance tasks.
  • Experience operating forklifts, aerial lifts, and cranes or the ability to learn under supervision.
  • Experience working in power plants, heavy industrial facilities, or similar environments.
  • Experience in mechanical maintenance, fabrication, or welding support.
  • Familiarity with electrostatic precipitators or similar air pollution control equipment.
  • Strong safety mindset and consistent use of required personal protective equipment.
  • Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary crew of mechanics and welders.
  • Willingness to work extended hours and consecutive days during shutdown periods.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This role is based at a coal-fired utility plant in Baltimore, MD, working under on-site supervision as part of a 10-person crew.
  • The schedule runs continuously during the assignment period, with work hours of 12 hours per day, 6 days per week, typically from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday.
  • Travel time is paid, and you receive a single-occupancy hotel room at no cost, along with a daily per diem for meals.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Feasterville, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $30/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $30/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania, whose middle half runs $27–$37/hr across 96 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 45% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Feasterville, PA

This is the only active welding job we're currently tracking in Feasterville, PA, which makes it worth moving on quickly — there is no local competing offer to weigh it against. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 254 other active welding openings from 159 employers. Browse welding jobs across Pennsylvania.

Aerotek currently has 1 other opening live in Pennsylvania, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (12), Hanwha Philly Shipyard (6), and TradeWorx (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $30/hr and York at $25/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Feasterville, PA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. TRAVELING WELDER- 3 WEEK PROJECT- WEEKLY PAY figures were last recalculated when this page was built.